Pinning down what is required from employees to achieve the business strategy is a no brainer. Without having clarity as to what employees should be developing, and importantly, a consistent... View Article
Research since the 1980s has illustrated the potential positive effects of stress (e.g. physiological thriving Dienstbier 1989, Epel et al. 1998, and ‘stress-related growth’ Tedeschi & Calhoun 2004). However, the hefty bank of... View Article
“When your manager cancels your one to one meeting, the underlying message is that the other task or thing that they feel needs to be urgently addressed is more important... View Article
Crisis, the national charity for homeless people, are hosting their annual Employment Platform event on 29th March. Crisis does fantastic work supporting their members back into the world of employment. In... View Article
Lively debates about performance appraisal processes have continued this year. Microsoft liberated itself from the shackles of annual performance reviews back in 2012, with other organisations following suit, including Accenture, Gap, Adobe and... View Article
Have you ever gone for a dip in the sea and been caught out by a rogue wave? Perhaps at that critical moment when a sizeable wave was making a play... View Article
The challenge of embedding a new company vision The popular narrative that 70% of change projects fail has been highlighted as a dubious reference by the Oxford Review. Instead, the limited available... View Article
If you’ve watched Zootopia, you may have been as amused as I was by the sloth characters in the film. They work in a painfully slow fashion as employees for... View Article
If you’re doing an employee engagement survey for the first time, or perhaps reviving a previously underwhelming programme, you may be wondering how you’ll ensure that effective action takes place... View Article
Being prepared to learn from your mistakes Sergey Ananov found himself marooned on a slab of ice in the Arctic Circle after things went rather wrong during his attempt to... View Article